U.S. News & World Report ranks
Marquette at No. 85 among the top 100 national universities,
a decided jump from last year’s ranking at No. 90. The
Princeton Review chooses Marquette from more than 900 colleges
and universities to feature in its new book Colleges
with a Conscience: 81 Great Schools with Outstanding Community
Involvement.

And
now on news stands, the 2006 special edition of America’s
Best Colleges produced by U.S. News commits three
pages to Marquette under the banner headline “Learning
to Serve.” It’s exciting when people outside
of our university community start taking notice. Our alums
talk about it, our parents count on it, our faculty personify
it, and our students live it — a Catholic, Jesuit educational
experience that is definitely different and that pairs academic
rigor with real reflection.

Or as U.S. News printed, an educational
tradition that “translates into granting students more
than just academic degrees; it means, in the Jesuit tradition,
no less than shaping the moral and spiritual character
of young men and women.”